As noted, askye, check with your temp agency about tutorials. My old agency offered them.

oh ... I watched the original Dark Shadows when it was new.

Me too. If I ran home from school I could just catch the last half of it.

I used to work at Lotus! Back when 1-2-3 was the biggest selling software on Earth. When I looked at the (short) list of best-selling software I turned to the person next to me and asked, "What's Microsoft?"

"Eh, that's just an operating system."

I am so done with being an adult for the day. I desperately need to go do laundry. (dog. UTI. sheets) but have run a severe spoon deficit and have a headache. Puppy boy has, unsurprisingly, an entirely different interpretation of every situation than I do - he had a scheduled meeting today with his sponsoring org, and I spoke to her afterwards.

Also, there is still apparently consensus that I am condescending. That doesn't surprise me, it's feedback I've gotten for a long time in leadership positions, but I no one seems to be able to quantify what it is exactly. Tone, I'm guessing. I don't fucking know.

Thank God for leftover pizza. Then a shower and then bed, I think.

My mom sent me cupcakes! [link]

Yep. The original spreadsheet software on an Apple II with a Silentwriter thermal printer.

We used it on the same. Held the entire inventory for a manufacturing company, on floppy disks. I had it at home too, but not so fancy as to have an actual printer. I had less trouble with technology then.

I have not been an adult at all today. Didn't bother to go to the office, although I did work remotely. I am only now getting around to hitting the shower. Perhaps that shall perk me up some.

eta: YaY, Hil's mom!

I can vaguely remember spending Saturdays at my dad's office while he backed up the last week's worth of data on the computer system, which entailed transmitting everything onto a gigantic reel of magnetic tape that would then get carefully labeled and stuck in a cool, dark closet with all the previous weeks' gigantic reels. It took 3-4 hours and sometimes the tape would get snarled and he'd have to unwind it and start over. Good times!

he backed up the last week's worth of data on the computer system

Uh, I did this at my first job. How young are you anyway?

Deena posted on the Drollerie Press LJ that she was shutting down the press due to her ill health. Apparently she's lucky to manage an hour out of bed a day, and with the kids and everything she's got far more important things to cope with than Drollerie.

God, I was so hoping she was getting better. Her LJ post said she'd be unable to answer any emails. I hope she can get disability of something.

Oh no.

I'm older than you, I'm pretty sure. This was something like '76-80. Sometime very soon after that he switched to something that either didn't involve the magnetic tape reel or that did but did it somewhat faster.

And, oh, God, Deena. That's deeply awful.